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Giddy-Up 2 Forked without source
NuanKi 24 Sep, 2024 @ 8:57pm
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Summary:
Concerns were raised about a possible trojan in Giddy-Up 2 Forked, but it was likely a false positive caused by an unnecessary UnityEngine file without a digital signature. The whole source has been removed in this fork, reducing mod size.

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Comments on Giddy-Up 2 mentioned that Giddy-Up 2 Forked had a trojan (when zipping the mod and sending it to VirusTotal, two antivirus programs detected it), and one comment stood out: 'the OP didn’t say anything, deleted comments, and set his profile to private for me'... When posting about this in the comments of my mod, it led CMaia to ask about it in Milie's Discord (search in the Discord search bar for 'I saw about Giddy-Up 2 virus'), to which Bradson said, 'It's a UnityEngine file directly copied from the game folder and not loaded by the game when placed in Source like that. That's pretty much guaranteed to be a false positive, but also has no reason to be there. It wastes storage space. The obj folder in Source should just be deleted, or even the whole Source folder if it's not being used. It's being flagged as a trojan because it's missing Unity's official digital signature when copied and made public for modding purposes.' So, I'm releasing the forked version without the Source folder. I recommend keeping an eye on Giddy-Up 2 Forked in case he posts a version after 'Update: May 15 at 19:55'. Maybe he’ll remove the Source folder—apparently, it was just a silly mistake to include it in the mod. His work should be recognized. I have no idea if there’s any issue with uploading a mod that isn’t mine; when uploading, it says that I have to be the creator, and there’s a link to a page that no one reads. I hope Steam notifies me if I need to remove it (in which case, I’ll set it to private) or simply removes it if it violates anything.